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I do believe that painting can change the world.

David Hockney

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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
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Bradford
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On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, Well, I don't have to talk much.
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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
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California is always in my mind.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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